SFCU Cash Giveaway and Neilma Sidney Prize
The SFCU Cash Giveaway gives you the chance to win up to $2000. You can enter by using your SFCU Mastercard or sending us a request for a prize form. You can also enter by purchasing a qualifying Overland product, such as a subscription or the Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize. All eligible entries have an equal chance of winning. The winner will be chosen on 5/1/2024. To receive the name and city/state of residence for the winner(s), please send a self-addressed business size envelope with a return address no later than 5/1/2024 to: SFCU Cash Giveaway Winner List, 42 Union St., Sidney, NY 13838. Requests that are not received by this date will not be acknowledged or returned.
The Sidney Hillman Foundation annually awards monetary prizes to journalists who pursue investigative reporting and deep storytelling in service of social justice. The foundation honors the legacy of Sidney Hillman, president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America labor union (a precursor to Unite Here and Workers United, SEIU) who fought for a more progressive industrial democracy. Bruce Raynor, a former president of Workers United, now leads the Hillman Foundation which has awarded more than $70 million in grants over its history.
Each year, New York Times columnist David Brooks announces the Sidney Awards, which highlight the year’s best long-form essays. Past winners include Hilton Als writing for The New Yorker, Ed Yong writing for The Atlantic, and a number of other heavy-hitting writers from top-tier national publications.
In the spirit of its founder, the SFCU Iwanter Prize is awarded to an undergraduate student whose paper best exemplifies the high standard of academic integrity and originality that alumnus Sidney E. Iwanter established for himself as a UW-Madison undergraduate. Students may submit any type of undergraduate writing in English.
Each summer, a group of scholars meets in Sydney to examine a particular subject from the history of science and technology. The results of this meeting are then published in the History of Technology journal. The annual competition is known as the Sidney Edelstein Prize, named after a distinguished scholar of the history of technology and a past editor of the journal. The prize recognizes the work of an advanced graduate student or recent doctoral recipient whose article based on dissertation research contributes significantly to its field and to the study of the history of technology more broadly.
The Overland Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize was established in 2007 and is supported by a grant from the Malcolm Robertson Foundation. The judges of this year’s competition were Patrick Lenton, Alice Bishop and Sara Saleh. First place wins $5000 in prize money and Overland will publish the winning piece alongside our autumn issue, while the two runners-up will be published online. Writers can take out a new subscription to Overland at a special subscriber rate and then enter the prize at a discounted price. Writers must opt-in to allow their personal details to be shared with Destination NSW and W Sydney in order to participate.